Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: "" Association of mast cells with lung function in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseas. | Respiratory Research BioMed Central Research Association of mast cells with lung function in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Margot ME Gosman1 Dirkje S Postma1 Judith M Vonk2 Bea Rutgers3 Monique Lodewijk3 Mieke Smith3 Marjan A Luinge3 Nick HT ten Hacken1 and Wim Timens 3 Address Department of Pulmonology University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands 2Department of Epidemiology University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands and 3Department of Pathology University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands Email Margot ME Gosman - margotgosman@ Dirkje S Postma - Judith M Vonk - Bea Rutgers - Monique Lodewijk - Mieke Smith - Marjan A Luinge - Nick HT ten Hacken - Wim Timens - Corresponding author Open Access Published 10 September 2008 Received 10 April 2008 Accepted 10 September 2008 Respiratory Research 2008 9 64 doi 1465-9921 -9-64 p p This article is available from http content 9 1 64 2008 Gosman et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background In asthma higher chymase positive mast cell MC-C numbers are associated with less airway obstruction. In COPD the distribution of MC-C and tryptase positive mast cells MC-T in central and peripheral airways and their relation with lung function is unknown. We compared MC-T and MC-C distributions in COPD and .
